The Yellow Snow Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (AP Photo/Al Grillo/Del Monte Foods) ✰ THE WINNERS ✰ First: Maggie Mama – Rescue teams head out to search for Al Gore and Global Warming. Second: Brian J. – In Alaska, ...

Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, wants to ban the use of salt in restaurants. “No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared ...

NAF’s Robert Wright argues that the current panic over Toyota safety is a function of inumeracy. My back-of-the-envelope calculations (explained in a footnote below) suggest that if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems ...

Senator Jim Webb says it’s time to drop General Order No. 1, which bans alcohol consumption, gambling, and pornography in hostile fire zones. In part, the order is out of sensitivity to “host-nationâ€� culture. But it’s also a major safety issue. ...

John Ellis, president of the California Association of Scholars and a former professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, argues that the state university system in which he taught for nearly four decades taught in helped ruin the state’s ...

Humorist Bill Geerhart wrote a series of letters to famous and infamous people in the voice of “his inner child, 10-year-old Billy.” They’ve been published as Little Billy’s Letters: An Incorrigible Inner Child’s Correspondence ...

From Onion News Network, a spoof of the formula for cable TV news filler segments.   The language is rather saltier than typical here, most of it gratuitous, but good satire nonetheless. Charlie Booker’s “How to Report the News” is ...

Time for the Thursday OTB Caption ContestTM REUTERS/Marco Fredes Winners will be announced Monday PM

A series of loosely-related threads at memeorandum provide a fascinating insight into the American legislative process. David Herszenhorn and Robert Pear report for the NYT Money &  Policy section (”Parliamentary Hurdle Could Thwart Latest ...

Thomas Friedman, who has over the years earned both enmity from the Right for his criticisms of the Iraq War and derision from the Left by his continual calls for another six months, leaves plenty for everyone in his latest column. On the one hand, the ...

Corey Haim has died at 38, likely of a drug overdose. Actor Corey Haim, who appeared in a number of movies during the 1980s, died early Wednesday of a possible drug overdose after being taken to a hospital, Los Angeles police said. Haim, 38, was taken ...

CJR Fellow Terry McDermott argues that Fox has “simply (and shamelessly) mastered the confines of cable.”   He blathers on and on and on before finally coming to an actual point: Cable news is not literally a broadcast business, but a narrowcast. ...

Chief Justice John Roberts says he’s not sure why the Supreme Court still attends the State of the Union address, indicating that perhaps it was time for that tradition to end. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene ...

Apparently, this front-page photo made 27 people mad enough to cancel their subscriptions to the Washington Post: So, why did nearly half of WaPo’s subscribers cancel?  A few people wrote  ombudsman Andy Alexander using anti-gay slurs. Mostly, ...